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• Virtual Public Meeting: Provide oral 

comments during the virtual public 

meeting on Monday, February 24, 2025, 

from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST, by 

registering as a speaker at https://

forms.gle/rE9QDjpfcMxoezP49. Please 

register by Monday, February 24, 2025, 

at 8 a.m. EST. Upon registration, NOAA 

will send a confirmation email. The 

speaker lineup is based on the date and 

time of this registration. One hour prior 

to the start of the Monday, February 24, 

2025 virtual meeting, NOAA will send 

an email to all registered speakers with 

the public meeting link and information 

about participating. While advance 

registration is requested, registration 

will remain open until the meeting 

closes, and any participant may provide 

oral comment after the registered 

speakers conclude. Meeting registrants 

may remain anonymous by typing 

‘‘Anonymous’’ into the ‘‘First Name’’ 

and ‘‘Last Name’’ fields on the 

registration form. 

• Email: Send written comments to 

Carrie Hall, Evaluator, NOAA Office for 

Coastal Management, at 

czma.evaluations@noaa.gov. Include 

‘‘Comments on Performance Evaluation 

of Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine 

Research Reserve’’ in the subject line. 

NOAA will accept anonymous 

comments; however, the written 

comments NOAA receives are 

considered part of the public record, 

and the entirety of the comment, 

including the name of the commenter, 

email address, attachments, and other 

supporting materials, will be publicly 

accessible. Sensitive personally 

identifiable information, such as 

account numbers and Social Security 

numbers, should not be included with 

the comments. Comments that are not 

related to the performance evaluation of 

JCNERR or that contain profanity, 

vulgarity, threats, or other inappropriate 

language will not be considered. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carrie Hall, Evaluator, NOAA Office for 

Coastal Management, by email at 

Carrie.Hall@noaa.gov or by phone at 

(240) 410–3422. Copies of the previous 

evaluation findings, reserve 

management plan, and reserve site 

profile may be viewed and downloaded 

at https://coast.noaa.gov/czm/ 

evaluations/. A copy of the evaluation 

notification letter and most recent 

progress report may be obtained upon 

request by contacting Carrie Hall. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

315(f) of the Coastal Zone Management 

Act (CZMA) requires NOAA to conduct 

periodic evaluations of federally 

approved national estuarine research 

reserves. The evaluation process 

includes holding one or more public 

meetings, considering public comments, 

and consulting with interested federal, 

state, and local agencies and members of 

the public. During the evaluation, 

NOAA will consider the extent to which 

the State of New Jersey has met the 

national objectives and has adhered to 

the management plan approved by the 

Secretary of Commerce, the 

requirements of Section 315(b)(2) of the 

CZMA, and the terms of financial 

assistance under the CZMA. When the 

evaluation is complete, NOAA’s Office 

for Coastal Management will place a 

notice in the Federal Register 

announcing the availability of the final 

evaluation findings. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1461 

Keelin Kuipers, 

Deputy Director, Office for Coastal 

Management, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Bay Watershed Education 

and Training Program National 

Evaluation System 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0658 in the subject line of your 

comments. Do not submit Confidential 

Business Information or otherwise 

sensitive or protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Bronwen 

Rice, B–WET Program Manager, NOAA 

Office of Education, 1305 E West Hwy., 

SSMC3 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, 

202–604–1388, and Bronwen.Rice@

noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This is a request for an extension of 

an existing information collection. 

The National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) 

Office of Education is sponsoring data 

collection efforts on its Bay Watershed 

Education and Training (B–WET) 

program. The NOAA B–WET program is 

authorized under 33 U.S.C. 893a(a), the 

America COMPETES Act. The 

Administrator of the National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration is 

authorized to conduct, develop, 

support, promote, and coordinate formal 

and informal educational activities at all 

levels to enhance public awareness and 

understanding of ocean, coastal, Great 

Lakes, and atmospheric science and 

stewardship by the general public and 

other coastal stakeholders, including 

underrepresented groups in ocean and 

atmospheric science and policy careers. 

B–WET advances NOAA’s mission by 

awarding education grants that foster an 

environmentally literate citizenry who 

have the knowledge, attitudes, and 

skills needed to protect watersheds and 

related ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes 

ecosystems. B–WET currently funds 

projects in seven regions (California, 

Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Gulf of 

Mexico, Hawaii, New England, and the 

Pacific Northwest). 

To ensure that educational activities 

funded by B–WET are of the highest 

quality, and efficiently utilize federal 

resources, B–WET has created an acrossregion, internal evaluation system to 

provide ongoing monitoring of program 

implementation and to identify 

opportunities for improved program 

outcomes. The evaluation system is 

maintained by B–WET staff with 

assistance from an outside contractor. 

The evaluation system collects 

information from B–WET programfunded project participants, both grant 

recipients and those they serve. 

B–WET awardees of grants or 

cooperative agreements, and the 

awardees’ teachers who attend 

professional development programs 


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provided by the awardees, are asked to 

voluntarily complete online survey 

forms to provide data for the evaluation 

system. Information collected from 

awardees includes program elements 

such as program duration, format, 

audience, location, support and/or 

materials offered, and topics covered. 

Information collected from teacher 

professional development participants 

includes teaching methodologies, 

program satisfaction, program coverage, 

suggestions for improvement, and 

teaching confidence. Information 

collected from teachers at the end of the 

school year following their participation 

in a professional development program 

includes program elements such as time 

spent teaching topics covered in the 

professional development program, 

types of activities used with their 

students, teachers’ perceptions of 

student learning, and teaching practices 

utilized. One individual from each 

awardee organization is asked to 

complete a survey once per year of the 

award, and the teacher participants are 

asked to complete one survey at the end 

of their professional development 

program and another survey at the end 

of the following school year. Responses 

to the survey questions are aggregated 

and analyzed as part of ongoing 

evaluation efforts. 

Based on a review of evaluation 

system results, B–WET has made 

program improvements by adjusting its 

Federal Notice of Funding 

Opportunities and program guidelines. 

On-going data collection enables NOAA 

to monitor program implementation and 

outcomes on a regular basis and 

supports adaptive management of the 

program. 

II. Method of Collection 

Respondents submit their information 

electronically using a survey collection 

platform. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0658. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

extension of a current information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Business and other 

for-profit organizations; not-for-profit 

institutions; state, local or tribal 

government; individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

Given historical funding levels, NOAA 

B–WET estimates that approximately 

165 awardees and 3,374 teachers will be 

invited to respond each year. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

Awardee-respondents will complete an 

online survey in 60 minutes and 

teacher-respondents will complete two 

online surveys in 30 minutes each. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 3,539. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting 

costs. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: 33 U.S.C. 893a(a), the 

America COMPETES Act. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE523] 

Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public online meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Pacific Council) 

Ad-Hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook 

Workgroup (KRWG) will hold a two-day 

online meeting. 

DATES: The online meeting will be held 

Monday, January 13, 2025, from 10 a.m. 

until 4 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time and 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 9 a.m. 

until 4 p.m., Pacific Time, or until 

business for the day concludes. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

online. Specific meeting information, 

including directions on how to join and 

system requirements will be provided in 

the meeting announcement on the 

Pacific Council’s website (see 

www.pcouncil.org). You may send an 

email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 

(kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov) or contact 

him at (503) 820–2280, extension 412 

for technical assistance. 

Council Address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angela Forristall, Staff Officer, Pacific 

Council; telephone: (503) 820–2419. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

primary purpose of the meeting is to 

address guidance received from the 

Pacific Council at their November 2024 

meeting. The KRWG may discuss and 

further develop interim management 

measures, or a management framework, 

intended to address the response of 

Klamath River fall Chinook to the 

dynamic nature of the Klamath River 

environment and the available habitat 

immediately following dam removal, 

and post-dam removal until the natural 

environment is stabilized and the 

salmon population is more predictable. 

Additional discussions may include, but 

are not limited to, future meetings, 

workload planning, and upcoming items 

on the upcoming Pacific Council 

meeting agenda. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may be 

discussed, those issues may not be the 

subject of formal action during this 

meeting. Action will be restricted to 

those issues specifically listed in this 

document and any issues arising after 

publication of this document that 

require emergency action under section 

305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the intent to take final action to address 

the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 


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